Novell Acquires Datacenter Experts Platespin
Feb 25, 2008Novell today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PlateSpin Ltd. The purchasing price is said to be US$ 205 m.
more »HP Canvasses Sun Customers
Feb 22, 2008HP is looking to facilitate migration of Solaris enterprise users from Sun to HP hardware running on Linux. To this end, HP has now become a sales partner of the Transitive virtualization company.
more »Photoshop CS/CS2 on Wine – Thanks to Google
Feb 20, 2008Google uses Wine to provide Linux support for Picasa; now the search engine giant has commissioned the specialists from Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 .
more »Sun Acquires Virtualbox Vendor Innotek
Feb 13, 2008Sun Microsystems has been on another spending spree: Sun’s latest acquisition is said to be Innotek, the manufacturer of the Virtualbox Open Source virtualization solution.
more »Parallels Workstation for Ubuntu Users
Feb 07, 2008Thanks to an agreement with the Ubuntu company, Canonical, Parallels can now distribute its commercial virtualization product, Parallels Workstation, via the Ubuntu package management system.
more »Xen 3.2 Released
Jan 18, 2008Version 3.2 of the Xen Open Source virtualization solution is now available. The new release not only adds new features, but comes with many modifications under-the-hood.
more »Ready to Run Images for OpenVZ
Jan 09, 2008The OpenVZ project has released two new virtual machine images which will give administrators the ability to set up a new virtual server in less than a minute.
more »Changes to the Libvirt Virtualization Library
Dec 18, 2007Version 0.4.0 of libvirt, a free library for administration of virtualized operating systems has just been released.
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